Clearly we need even more regulations!

The corporations control the government. We should consider giving the government more power...to fix this... somehow.

This is how all laws are passed.

Just look at the FDA, most licensing rackets, 'consumer protections', 'banking regulations' and so on. Sorry folks, they're not there to improve safety. They make them to rig the market in the favor of power players. They don't care about consumers.

All they have to do is scare you into believing without them, all sorts of bad things will happen. It's protection racket, expert mode.

It will be amusing to watch all of this stuff bought up, then shipped overseas. You are absolutely nuts if you want to actually start a business with all of these neat toys in the United States. One of my customers used to own a lumber yard, a single rookie OSHA inspector that didn't even know what the machines were called required them to make so many impossible 'fixes' that they just closed up shop and shipped everything to Costa Rica. It was cheaper to ship everything and start up in Costa Rica than it was to pay all of the fines and ‘fix’ the machines (which were not broken). Oh yeah, and before anyone says they were unsafe, 1 major injury and 3 minor injuries in 20 years, no deaths.

In Soviet Russia, Microsoft pays pirates.

Clearly this is because we're not investing enough in our childrens future. If we just invest more money, it will solve the problem. We'll be able to hire more administrators, and everybody knows more administrators means more jobs and better test results! Sorry folks, the public school system isn't there to teach kids. It's a jobs program for adults.

Psst, they assume the risk of hiring you. Otherwise, you would just work on your own and cut out the middle man. The reason you work there is because they have access to capital. How do they purchase that capital? With their profits. When you tax away the profits, you get less capital.

Psst, you're probably working for a millionaire. And if you're not, chances are your income is based off of investments from those same evil millionaires.

But billy, what about all of the taxes that they collect from their workers, including the property taxes on their homes? Doesn't Microsoft being in WA also drive up property values in certain areas? The truth is, if they leave, WA gets even less money.

Shut up citizen.

When government intervention fails, it's because we did not intervene enough! Everybody knows this. Where did you get your economics degree citizen? It sounds to me like you are spewing unapproved economics!


Citizen, pick up that can.

If the people really want all of the things that the governments offer them, why don't they want to pay for them?

Why not just make all of these systems voluntary, if people really want them, they'll pay into the system.

Oh right, I forgot, the majority of the population wants to force a minority of the population to pay for things they want at threat of violence against them. Right.

So in otherwords, let's make a cartel? A cartel that has the power to force you at gun point to purchase their products? Doesn't seem like such a good idea to me.

So does that mean you're okay with monopolies? Sounds to me like you don't want competition, which means you want a monopoly power. Not only that, but you want a monopoly power that has the power to force you at the threat of violence against you to purchase their products whether you want them or not.
Kinda makes microsoft look like an angel...

I wonder how much tax revenue Washington State will get if Microsoft just up and leaves the state if Washington State 'punishes' Microsoft. What's 100% of zero again? I'm not good at math but I think it's zero...

Look at the bright side. They probably got their robot back. If it wasn't for the TSA, they'd never have seen it again!